After searching for a while throughout the mansion, they encountered and discovered a strange room - a room that seemed almost empty and lifeless with no movement whatsoever, no atmosphere; absolutely empty - except from a grand piano in the middle of the aforementioned room.
Evidently they thought it was very suspicious but Katrielle had decided to wander into the centre of the room; Sherl and Ernest reluctantly followed her slowly.
"M...Miss Layton, what are you doing?" - Ernest said while stuttering slightly due to his somewhat fear of the unknown.
"Isn't it obvious Ernest?" - She said with a smile on her face - "I am trying to find out what on earth this lone piano is doing here in the first place!" - She also said while clapping her hands like she usually does.
"You must be barking mad, Kat!" - Sherl barked at her - "Isn't this obvious?! This room is suspicious!"
"Oh you worry too much, Sherl!" - Katrielle had replied while walking around the piano.
While this was happening, Ernest was merely going along with what Katrielle was doing; after all, he wanted to appeal to and please her as much as he could.
"Huh? What's this?" - Ernest had found a small engraving under the piano marked 'Bronev'
"What could this mean? Whose name is this?" - Ernest asked quietly to get the attention of both Katrielle and Sherl.
"B-r-o-n-e-v?" - That certainly does not sound like the usual name you'd hear around here, right?" Sherl barked out
"I...I wonder what this could mean" Katrielle started to say - "Maybe this piano belongs to someone whose name is Bronev?"
"That must be the case as I already see the manufacturer's name on the top of it here" Ernest softly replied.
Soon after they had noticed that, they began looking around the actual room itself as they split off into the different corners; but suddenly, Sherl heard the piano being played - the song was unfamiliar to Sherl.
"Um...Kat...are you playing the piano? I thought we were investigating" He said while still looking around the room
"W...Well no, what about you Ernest?"
"O...Of course not, miss!" He says as they all turn around
They slowly walk closer to the piano in the centre of the room and notice that it seemed to be playing by itself - or at least, the keys were moving and there was nobody playing the piano.
[G....A....F....E....D....G....B♭....]
((also, try and guess this song))
The song slowly continued slowly and quietly while the others looked confused and in confusion.
"What is this knife doing here?" Katrielle asked - "I could swear it wasn't here before..."
She slowly picked up the knife and began examining it; it had no weird or strange marks on it and it looked like it was in pristine condition.
"Kat...I'd stop touching that if I were you. Your fingerprints will be all over it!" Sherl barked at her loudly.
As soon as he said that, the music suddenly stopped and all they heard was a single drop of what sounded to be water...a second later another drop was heard as it echoed throughout the room.
"Is there a leak in here?" Katrielle asked confused
"N...N...N...No miss...!" Ernest said stuttering a lot due to what he had just seen - "L...L...Look at the piano!" He said while pointing to it
The drops of liquid were in fact not water...but were actually...some red substance.
"T...There's no way that is paint!" Sherl barked in surprise
When he said this, they all slowly looked up at the ceiling to see what the cause of this red substance; since the room was very high, they couldn't exactly see what was at the top of the ceiling but the source was definitely coming from up there. After a few seconds, they realised that this red substance wasn't just ribena blackcurrant juice, but it was human blood.
After realising this, Katrielle shrieked loudly and immediately grabbed Ernest's hands and Sherl before starting to run outside of the room.
"W...W...W...We need to get out of here, miss!" Ernest shakily said while beginning to panic and Sherl didn't have too much of an idea as to what was going on.
After a little bit of running, they had 'run' into quite the dilemma.
"Oh my." Katrielle began saying while panicking slightly - "We're stuck in this maze of a building!"
"Don't talk nonsense, Kat! I thought a 'Kat' could always find their way back home!" Sherl responded sharply in his monotone voice
"It is the mysterious mansion, after all" Ernest replied in his honest and calm tone
"Regardless, we need to find a way out of here and fast!" Katrielle said urgently - "Right, let's put our minds together and try to get out of this maze!"
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Layton Mystery Journey: The Mysterious Mansionレイトンミステリージャーニー：神秘的な大邸宅
Mystery / ThrillerThis is a mysterious tale of one fateful afternoon which changed the fate of Katrielle Layton and Ernest Greeves after one time they went to the infamous "Mysterious Mansion"; however, what happens there will change the course of their lives massive...
